Canada's Commission of Inquiry into the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182 released its final report Thursday. Led by former Canadian Supreme Court justice John Major , the Commission found that there were various institutional organizations that did not fulfill their responsibilities. Major condemned the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Royal Canadian [...]
The Netherlands Rotterdam District Court on Thursday sentenced a group of Somali pirates to five years in prison for hijacking a cargo ship registered in the Netherlands Antilles. The five men were arrested last year during an attempt to forcibly board a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden after a Danish navy frigate sunk [...]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday opened a new proceeding to identify the legal approach that will best support its efforts to develop universal access to "high quality" Internet broadband services. The FCC was forced to revisit its method of broadband regulation under its National Broadband Plan after the DC Circuit Court ruled in [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 in Schwab v. Reilly that a trustee assigned to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case is not required to object to the exemptions made by the debtor in order to preserve the estate's right to retain any value in the asset beyond the value of the exempt interest. [...]
A Rwandan court on Thursday granted the bail request of US lawyer and JURIST Forum contributor Peter Erlinder . Judge Johnson Busingye of the High Court of Rwanda granted unconditional release due to Erlinder's persisting medical problems, which would allow Erlinder to leave the country, but requires that he inform the court of his whereabouts [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environment Protection that the state of Florida did not "take" property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment where the state permanently fixed property boundaries as part of a beachfront restoration project. The petitioners in the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-4 in New Process Steel v. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that the NLRB lacks the authority to decide cases where only two of the five-member board are present. Section 3(b) of the National Labor Relations Act provides that three members are enough to constitute a quorum of [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in Dillon v. United States that the court's decision in United States v. Booker does not provide for special consideration of changes in sentencing guidelines during U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) sentence modification hearings. The court ruled in Booker that federal sentencing guidelines are advisory only, although they had never ruled [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled in City of Ontario v. Quon that an employer's search of private text messages on a work-issued device does not violate the Fourth Amendment if the search is motivated by a legitimate work-related purpose and is not excessive in scope. The court's ruling applies even when the [...]
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to approve an ordinance that would require retailers who sell cellular phones to display the varying amounts of radiation emitted by the different cell phone models. The ordinance passed by a vote of 10-1 and Mayor Gavin Newsom , who helped sponsor the legislation, is expected [...]
